NSU Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences Faculty Viewbook

17 www.scis.nova.edu | BITS AND BYTES - author of three books, Object-Oriented Programming Featuring Graphical Applications in Java, The Schemer’s Guide to Solid Modeling, and Computational Geometry and Computer Graphics in C++ - published in such journals as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Algorithmica, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Pattern Recognition Letters, Optimization Letters, and Operations Research Letters - enjoys running, swimming, kayaking, hiking, reading, and spending time with his family “Because computer science lies at the crossroads of diverse, information- intensive disciplines, it opens many doors. It also happens to be a fascinating field in its own right.” After completing his undergraduate degree from Vassar College in mathematics and philosophy in 1979, Michael Laszlo assumed a position at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he immersed himself in computer science. He worked there for three years on simulation studies and other projects, during which time he learned and worked with C, Unix, APL, PL/1, Fortran, Rogue, orange CRTs, and primitive bitmap graphics, all of which were fairly state-of-the-art in the early 1980s. From there, he went to Princeton University and earned his Ph.D. in computer science with a dissertation that concerned data structures for manipulating three-dimensional subdivisions of space. Following two teaching positions, he joined Nova Southeastern University in 1994. Research Areas: computer graphics, data structures and algorithms, software engineering, and programming